Partitions of the phase space of a measure preserving \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)-action into towers (Q1974362)

Alpern proved that the phase space of an aperiodic measure preserving automorphism \(T\) can be decomposed into Rohlin-Halmos towers of given heights \(h_i\) and weights \(m_i\) whenever the numbers \(h_i\) are relatively prime. In this paper an extension of the Alpern theorem to the case of free \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) actions is given. Namely, the author investigates the decomposability of the action phase space into towers of rectangular form and presents conditions on the configuration (the set of tower forms) sufficient for the existence of such a decomposition. The proof of the main result uses the technique of tilings.